I bought my house in June; it's an old farmhouse that is 1.5 stories, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1450 sq ft. Built in 1895, it has been updated with blown in insulation, newer roof, and double-pane windows.
I currently have either vinyl or wood floors with no insulation under the floors.
The current heating system is a 1970's era heating oil furnace located in the main room of the home so right when you walk into the house, the first thing you see is an ugly brown 3'x5' metal box...
There is no current duct work; the furnace has vents that blow warm air into the main room which is between the kitchen and living room. The only way the upstairs is heated is by opening the door to the stairway...
I currently live only on the main floor as the 2 upstairs bedrooms are unfinished.
I've been heating the house with a portable baseboard heater in the bedroom, and a Walmart oil-filled radiator set to 65 degrees in the main room.
When I fire up the oil heater, it runs for about a half hour and gets the downstairs to a toasty 68 degrees. It then has to come on about every half hour or forty-five minutes and run for 5-10 minutes to maintain heat for about 900sq ft of living space with outside temps at around freezing.
I fired it up a couple of times when it was near zero outside and it ran for half an hour, then shut off, then fired back up within 15 minutes and ran for fifteen more minutes, and on and on...
I think the cheapest solution is to get a natural gas stove that looks like a woodstove and has a blower. There is natural gas on my street and the utility company will pipe it to my house and install a meter at no charge.
However, I still have to pay someone to pipe about 8' of gas line from the meter to the new stove.
The current furnace vents through a chimney that has been updated with a liner and cap, so I can vent the new stove through it.
However, finding information on the different heating stoves as far as efficiency, reliability, cost, etc is proving difficult.
Anyone have any insight as to styles or brands that would be best?
Any idea how much running the gas line would cost?
I'd love a wood stove, but the configuration of my home makes one unfeasible... My existing chimney shows signs of a previous chimney fire, so it would require a lot of work to be able to handle a wood stove's heat and smoke output...
I currently have either vinyl or wood floors with no insulation under the floors.
The current heating system is a 1970's era heating oil furnace located in the main room of the home so right when you walk into the house, the first thing you see is an ugly brown 3'x5' metal box...
There is no current duct work; the furnace has vents that blow warm air into the main room which is between the kitchen and living room. The only way the upstairs is heated is by opening the door to the stairway...
I currently live only on the main floor as the 2 upstairs bedrooms are unfinished.
I've been heating the house with a portable baseboard heater in the bedroom, and a Walmart oil-filled radiator set to 65 degrees in the main room.
When I fire up the oil heater, it runs for about a half hour and gets the downstairs to a toasty 68 degrees. It then has to come on about every half hour or forty-five minutes and run for 5-10 minutes to maintain heat for about 900sq ft of living space with outside temps at around freezing.
I fired it up a couple of times when it was near zero outside and it ran for half an hour, then shut off, then fired back up within 15 minutes and ran for fifteen more minutes, and on and on...
I think the cheapest solution is to get a natural gas stove that looks like a woodstove and has a blower. There is natural gas on my street and the utility company will pipe it to my house and install a meter at no charge.
However, I still have to pay someone to pipe about 8' of gas line from the meter to the new stove.
The current furnace vents through a chimney that has been updated with a liner and cap, so I can vent the new stove through it.
However, finding information on the different heating stoves as far as efficiency, reliability, cost, etc is proving difficult.
Anyone have any insight as to styles or brands that would be best?
Any idea how much running the gas line would cost?
I'd love a wood stove, but the configuration of my home makes one unfeasible... My existing chimney shows signs of a previous chimney fire, so it would require a lot of work to be able to handle a wood stove's heat and smoke output...
Gas heating stove advice?
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